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The Buganda Crisis, also called the 1966 Mengo Crisis, the Kabaka Crisis, or the 1966 Crisis, domestically, was a period of political turmoil that occurred in Buganda.It was driven by conflict between Prime Minister Milton Obote and the Kabaka of Buganda, Mutesa II, culminating in a military assault upon the latter's residence that drove him into exile.
The Kabaka crisis was a political and constitutional crisis in the Uganda Protectorate between 1953 and 1955 wherein the Kabaka Mutesa II pressed for secession of Buganda from the Uganda Protectorate and was subsequently deposed and exiled by the British governor Andrew Cohen.
The attack on Muteesa's palace refers to a significant event that occurred during Milton Obote's first reign of presidency in Uganda commonly known as the Mengo Crisis. On 24 May 1966, Obote ordered an assault on the (Lubiri) palace located at Mengo in Kampala, the residence of King (Kabaka) Edward Muteesa II of Buganda. The attack aimed to ...
In 1967, the prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote changed the 1966 constitution and turned the state into a republic. [11] On 24 May 1966 the federal Ugandan army attacked the royal compound or Lubiri in Mmengo. [12] At the time, Uganda’s first president and king of Buganda Kabaka Muteesa II fled his palace at Mengo amid a downpour.
In 1966, Mutesa's estrangement from Obote merged with another crisis. Obote faced a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party. He had the other four leading members of his party arrested and detained, and then suspended the federal constitution and declared himself President of Uganda in February 1966, deposing ...
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He is the youngest son of the late Kabaka Muteesa II, the 35th Kabaka the Kingdom of Buganda, and Winifred Keihangwe, an Ankole princess. Accordingly, he is the youngest brother of Muwenda Mutebi II the current Kabaka of Buganda. He was still in the womb when Milton Obote’s soldiers raided the Mengo Palace in 1966.